foone,
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So at this week's electronics fair, I found a weird VR headset prototype. No names on it, and it says "prototype/not for resale". I took it apart to figure out who made it, and completely failed. It's weeeird:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/717333209614090240/

Rairii,
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@foone what's on the emmc? have you dumped it yet?

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@Rairii haven't figured out how yet, but I'm gonna try if I can.

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

It's got a lot of cameras, including ones for eye tracking, it's got 3 wireless chips, and a cracked screen. I'd love to see this thing work, but sadly it's not possible for this unit. and unless I can find out what this thing is supposed to be, I'm afraid I won't learn much more

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

Also it has this on the front. No one can figure out what this says, or even if it's actually supposed to be test. The best suggestion I've seen is that it's designed for computer vision identification, not stylized text.

oblomov,
@oblomov@sociale.network avatar

@foone I was going to say that it looks a bit like Elian, but it doesn't seem to spell anything sensible

Almafeta,

@oblomov @foone Rotated 90 degrees it reads HEIBCEEDFI in Elian, so you can call it a Hey Ceebfi in a Homestar Runner voice and it'd make as much sense as any VR product name

gsuberland,
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

@foone anything in USB descriptors?

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@gsuberland Nah. USB seems to be data-only.

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@gsuberland err, power-only

gsuberland,
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

@foone any clear reset button onboard? wondering if you can boot it into DFU mode by holding it while plugging USB in.

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

Perhaps it's ONECRYSTAL upside down?
https://mastodon.org.uk/@growf/110374756283181735

xorowl,

@foone maybe you could get a clean, head on picture of the logo with the extra bits cropped out. Maybe a reverse image search would find something

jernej__s,

@xorowl @foone You can do that from the photo above – just apply perspective correction. Sadly, reverse image search gives no results.

xorowl,

@jernej__s @foone thats not something average folks know how to do

jernej__s,

@xorowl @foone You just need any half-decent image editor. Here's how it looks in Paint Shop Pro, but GIMP has a very similar tool:

Result after applying Perspective Correction: image is now warped, but the glyphs on the headset are now perfectly straightened.

xorowl,

@jernej__s that's some advanced photo editing stuff

evilspoons,
@evilspoons@mastodon.social avatar

@jernej__s @xorowl @foone

Well, you beat me to it and did a better job, but here's my crap attempt at isolating and perspective-correcting the text.

(Note to self: I hate GIMP and I should stop using it.)

z3r0fox,
@z3r0fox@mastodon.social avatar

@foone This is how The Peripheral starts

kboyd,
@kboyd@phpc.social avatar

@z3r0fox @foone yeah, indeed - although people in the replies are WAAAAAY too eager to try on/try out what could be a tool to intentionally trigger seizures.

sgf,
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